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Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and

Company

Shield AI

Location

San Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-04T10:54:40.398+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a Senior Staff System Architect to own the architecture of Hivemind Forge, the part of its Hivemind autonomy stack that lets developers build, train, tune, evaluate, optimize and deploy learning-based autonomy software. The role sits in the SEIT team within Hivemind Enterprise and covers developer tools, APIs, data infrastructure, simulation and AI/ML workflows using VLMs, VLAs, world and foundation models. The ecosystem must run on enterprise cloud, high-performance computing, and secure or disconnected deployments.